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Question 1

What is business continuity?

Answer 1

Capability of a business to operate in adverse conditions.

Question 2

What are disaster recovery plans, business continuity plans, and crisis communication plans?

Answer 2

• Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) focus on the recovery of tech, plant, and people.
  
  • Business Continuity Plans (BCP) focus on overall strategy for sustaining the business during disaster and subsequent recovery period.
  • Crisis Communication Plans (CCP) focus on internal and external communications.

Question 3

What is the purpose of a business impact analysis?

Answer 3

Identify essential services and business processes and to characterize system components and interdependencies.

Question 4

What are the goals of a BIA?

Answer 4

Determine impact and criticality, establish recovery requirements, and recovery priorities.

Question 5

What is MTD?

Answer 5

Maximum Tolerable Downtime - maximum time a process or service can be unavailable without significantly impacting the business.

Question 6

What is SDO?

Answer 6

Service Delivery Objective - acceptable level of operations less than normal but sufficient enough to sustain the business until full recovery

Question 7

What is RTO?

Answer 7

Recovery Time Objective - Amount of time allocated for system recovery before negatively impacting other systems

Question 8

What is RPO?

Answer 8

(Recovery Point Objective): Acceptable data loss. Translates to the point in time prior to the disruption that data can be recovered.

Question 9

What is MTTR?

Answer 9

Mean time to repair

Question 10

What is MTBF?

Answer 10

Mean time between failures

Question 11

Run through BCP Planning Workflow.

Answer 11

Identify and prioritize, determine impact, establish MTD and SDO and RPO, Determine RTO, and find RTO and RPO gap analysis, Report to Management.